[Samba] Is the PDC always needed?

[David Noriega]

Maybe my understanding is flawed but I thought the purpose of the BDC
was in the case of the PDC going offline, users could still use the
system. Just this morning our PDC failed with bad memory, yet users
were unable to map their network drive. The PDC is in our office while
the file server is in the server room where its been setup as a domain
member. On the server room subnet is its own BDC with its own ldap
server. Checking the logs I see that the server room BDC is listed as
the local domain server. The only thing that comes to mind is the BDC
does point to the PDC as the wins server. Is that the issue? Is there
a way around it?

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David Noriega
System Administrator
Computational Biology Initiative
High Performance Computing Center
University of Texas at San Antonio
One UTSA Circle
San Antonio, TX 78249
Office: BSE 3.112
Phone: 210-458-7100
http://www.cbi.utsa.edu